SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

We also recommend diving into some of our top articles on how to succeed during the interview process and your first few months once you’ve gotten the job including: How to Succeed as a First-Time VP of Sales. 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. The 5 Characteristics of a Great Sales Leader. More on this opportunity here.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 15, 2024

Inaccurate, packed with "filler," or completely AI-generated — bad B2B (business-to-business) content is easy to spot and even easier to find online. But what makes B2B content good ? Interview them. According to one study, it also costs over $50 billion annually due to wasted resources alone.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I But really excited about this interview. Jump to video.

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FastSpring

APRIL 30, 2024

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So Planday is, I think the category is called workforce management platform. Jump to video.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I interviewed him for insights into how to build a global growth strategy, especially when it comes to localization. Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. I actually think my business should pay for it. Can you enable that?”

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. I interviewed Michael about successful global marketing strategies. Stream the Episode Highlights From The Interview 1. Learn more about our localized branded checkout.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. Then, came integration.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

A type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards partners (also known as affiliates) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The largest 3rd party ecommerce platform. They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. But how does user adoption impact your business? Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. And your role at a customer success team?

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint clients expect vendor-neutral recommendations and best practices in implementations and integrations.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

From leading sales at Zillow to brand strategy at Tumblr to revenue at FiscalNote (a global policy platform), Justin Scott started noticing a trend. And we need platforms to be able to do that. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. But how does user adoption impact your business? Add in-app video tutorials to make the onboarding process smooth. And your role at a customer success team?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Neil Ringers , EVP of Revenue Grid. Neil’s experience includes a long history of sales leadership, primarily in the Salesforce ecosystem, and is now running revenue for Revenue Grid. They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As leaders in sales engagement and sales management, Revenue Grid’s team has been working hard to understand this new landscape that we’re stepping into. We analyzed the data from over 502 B2B sales teams and hosted interviews with dozens of market leaders. more of their time browsing SaaS sites. Where do we go next?

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users. SaaS operators have the expertise but are continuously blocked with foundational issues that take time and energy. And a whole lot has happened since.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6%

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wepay

JANUARY 17, 2018

A key phase for any SaaS or software platform business is when they move beyond the idea, startup and product fit stages of their business to growing successfully. It’s one of the hardest transitions to make and a key hurdle to reaching real revenue and eventually profitability. The stages of a SaaS company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Loving our podcast content?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Integrity Selling for the 21st Century. Strategy and Process. B2B Is Really P2P. Predictable Revenue. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. The Psychology of Selling. SalesTruth.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? Now, what's happening in B2B SaaS news? Jay Nathan , B2B SaaS retention, expansion, and scaling expert, says: “We are all in sales.”. I'll tell ya just why.).

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Chargify

JUNE 27, 2019

Churn is part and parcel of running a SaaS company. Some will go out of business. However, you should do your best to keep churn as low as possible, because otherwise, it can do serious damage to your business. Stages of SaaS customer lifecycle. Some customers won’t get enough value out of your product. image source).

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

You may need a third party to do these interviews for you so that customers feel like they can be completely open. And, yes, in a few of these conversations your customers might say that they have new business for you, too, but don’t you bring that up. Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

CRM platforms. Inside sales may be used by any sales team, but it’s one of the top sales models in B2B, especially for SaaS and tech. Outside sales is the sales of products and services through in-person, face-to-face interactions. However, their actual sales processes are almost identical. And much more.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

SaaS founders and operators need help structuring and understanding the importance of sales basics. It’s a collection of your processes and practices that help you achieve your sales targets and continually improve your sales organization. And now, some on the how and the who : How is sales involved in that process?

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in. Introduction.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. After college, I went to work at the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, which was my first experience in business.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. What was the founding moment with Zylo?

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